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A Shocking Accident

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I read Graham Greene’s short story, A shocking accident. A shocking accident is about boy whose name is Jerome. Jerome is in School when the story begins and the school’s headmaster, Mr Wordsworth tells Jerome that his father had died yesterday in Naples because they kept their pigs on their balconies and the big had grown too fat and the balcony broke and the pig fell on Jerome’s father.

Jerome grows in story and in the end end his an adult. In the story Jerome thinks how to tell people how his father died so that people wouldn’t laugh. Jerome has two ways: just saying that his father got killed by a pig or telling really long story about it.

In some point of the story Jerome become engaged to a girl called sally. He didn’t want to tell Sally how his father died and that’s why he avoided to visiting his aunt who always talked about Jerome’s father. Week before wedding they visited Jerome’s aunt. Aunt started to tell about Jerome’s father. Sally didn’t laugh and Jerome was really happy about that.

In the end of the  story Sally asks what happened to the pig and Jerome says that they almost certainly had it for dinner. I think that Sally asked about pig because the atmosphere is tense and she wanted to lighten it.

Jerome’s character really grows in story, he understands that his father was not god but he was an ordinary man. Jerome also learns to love Sally more because she didn’t laugh. And also he accepted his father’s death.

What I think that happened to pig? I think that it didn’t die because it was so fat. The pig the ran away and someone else founded pig and put it on their balcony. That is how pig continued killing people until it died and got eaten.

 

Hesher (2010)

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The plot: T.J is a young boy who lives with his father, Paul and grandmother, Madeleine. His mother died in a car crash. Paul is addicted  to pills so Madeleine is doing all housework. T.J is trying to buy his mother’s car back and when the car seller doesn’t give it to him, he gets angry and breaks a window of a house where a man called Hesher lives. (The house is not Hesher’s). Next day when T.J is coming home from school Hesher follows him and starts living there. T.J hates Hesher and tries to get him to move away but Hesher won’t leave. Hesher sets T.J’s bully’s car on fire and T.J is blamed for that. Hesher also ruins someone’s backyard and T.J is almost blamed for that too. Hesher becomes Madeleine’s friend and in her funeral he steals her coffin. T.j is really mad at Hesher and tells him to never come back. When Paul and T.J gets back home they see T.J’s mother’s car there and their roof has a painting that says ”Hesher was here” They seem really happy that Hesher is never coming back but they learned from him and they become closer.

Characters: Main character is T.J (Devin Brochu) who is a young boy and he is really depressed. Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is homeless person who moves in with T.J’s family. There aren’t any big names in Hesher except Natalie Portman but her character isn’t important in movie. other characters are T.J’s father, Paul, T.J’s grandmother Madeleine, school bully Dustin.

Soundtrack: Hesher’s soundtrack is really unique because Metallica doesn’t usually let use their music but when they saw the film and noticed how much Hesher reminded their former bassist Cliff Burton they gave permission to use their music. In a movie there is also one song from Motörhead.

Genre: Hesher is a drama but there is also a lot of black humor in it.